keep cheerful
1keep one's chin up — To keep cheerful in a difficult situation (usu shortened to chin up! used as an encouragement) • • • Main Entry: ↑chin * * * informal remain cheerful in difficult circumstances keep your chin up, we re not lost yet …
2cheerful — adjective 1 behaving in a way that shows you are happy, for example by smiling or being very friendly: Despite feeling ill, she managed to keep cheerful. | a cheerful grin/smile/face (=showing that you are happy): Nancy gave me a cheerful grin… …
3keep your pecker up — british informal phrase used for encouraging someone to be happy in a difficult situation Thesaurus: ways of telling someone not to worry or be upsetsynonym Main entry: pecker * * * Brit., informal …
4keep your chin up — to stay cheerful and hopeful during difficult times He s still keeping his chin up despite all his health problems. (Keep your) chin up! Everything will work out for the best. • • • Main Entry: ↑chin keep your chin up see ↑chin • • • …
5(keep your) chin up — spoken phrase used for telling someone to be brave and happy even though they are in a difficult situation Come on, chin up! We’ve survived a lot worse than this. Thesaurus: ways of telling someone not to worry or be upsetsynonym Main entry: chin …
6keep your end up — informal phrase to do what other people in your group expect you to do as your share of the work or responsibility Thesaurus: to do something with someone elsesynonym Main entry: end * * * keep your ˈend up idiom …
7keep your pecker up Brit. — keep your pecker up Brit. informal remain cheerful. [pecker prob. in the sense beak .] → pecker …
8keep one's chin up — ► keep one s chin up informal remain cheerful in difficult circumstances. Main Entry: ↑chin …
9keep your pecker up — ► keep your pecker up Brit. informal remain cheerful. [ORIGIN: pecker probably in the sense «beak».] Main Entry: ↑pecker …
10cheerful — adj. VERBS ▪ appear, be, feel, look, seem, sound ▪ become ▪ keep, remain …
